Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-02-19
AMID THE RUINS.
Workmen Busy on the Great
Wreck in Vermont.
Exact Figures as to the Loss OF
Life Still Wanting
Terrible Experience of One Poor Woman
Rendered DeliriOus BY Fright.
The Vermont Horror.

The Vermont Horror.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT, Feb. The
througs Of visitors to the scene Of the TO- 'pie
wreck saw embedded in th~ llel1eu ice tne
--,.spcJa iron work OI four cars which had
gone down and carried death to most Of their
occupants. Where they lie were great pools
of water caused by the melting of the ice by
the heat from the burning cars. The first of
the day coaches was entirely destroyed, or
what little remained was hidden beneath the
little lake Of water upon the surface Of which
foated ember, bits of burned clothing and
pieces Of charred human flesh. IL was i'm
possible TO get at this car yesterday. SO far
as was known uota soul escaped from this
car, and it is considered possible that there
might be as MANY as forty bodies underneath
the debris sunk in this pool.
Official inspectors visited the blackened
wreck, and upon the ice in the debris Of the
Puritan they discovered the remains of no less
than six bodies which they could pick out.
Three were so thoroughly burned that 1t was
impossible even to tell their sex, and some
made scarcely handful.
In the next burned ear, the Pullman 81.
Adams, which came from Springfield they
could ONLY make out three bodies, and they
were reduced To such a state that they could
scarcely be discerned from the rest of the
debris. No doubt the bodies of many persons
were totally consumed.
Tne third car day coach, was totally sub
merged. and no investigation could be made.
The fourth car presented the most hOrrifying
scenes of all. No less than twelve bundles Of
burned flesh, charred out of all human shape,
| were found.
WORKING AMONG THE RUINS.
gang Of fifteen men worked all morning
through holes IN the ice raising portions Of
the wrecked train from the bottom Of the river
and searching for bodies which may yet be
among the ruins.
Nearly all signs Of the terrible disaster have
| disappeared, except the gaping space between
| the piers of the bridge and trains are running
| regularly to either end Of the bridge. The
condition of the wounded IS almost the same
The civil authorities of Hartford assumed
charge Of the remains OF the victims to-day
| and Of their personal effects. so far as found.
1t is now learned that Mrs. William DennO,
of Winooski Vt, was lost. Her husband was
| in the baggage ear at the time of the accident
| Her remains have not been identified.
A peculiar case has arisen over the matter
of the Identification of body claimed by two
parties, one alleging that it is the body of a
female and the other that it is that Of a Ciale.
Even the doctors are equally divided on the
| of the corpse.
UNCERTAINTY As To THE LOST
John Henry HaZen, one of the board OF Sc
| lectmen of the town of Hartford, saws that in
| his opinion the corpses of forty-slx persons
| havo thus far been taken from the wreck a.
| though there is not by actual count, while
| Isaac Gates, an undertaken, saws that thirty
| two bodies have been brought to his care,
| seven Of which have been identified and re-
| moved, and perhaps five more are suscepti-
BILE Of Identification.
Prof. Fletcher, chief Of the engineer depart
ment of Dartmouth college who has made a
| close examination of the tract leading to the
| bridge, saws there were three rails torn up at
the point where the car Pilgrim probably left
| the track. All show signs of defects in ma
| teral and in construction. He thinks an axle
| on the car Pilgrim broke, causing its derail-
ment and that that was the only car which
| left the track until the bridge was reached.
Local excitement over the accident is grad
| lally dying ont. The doctors report that al
| the injured are greatly improved even those
| who were considered most dangerously hurt
| being better and quite a number were allowed
| to go TO their homes tonight.
| Charles Sanford. of Washington, ID. C., who
| was reported killed was not on the train, anC
advices from Montreal state that the Kennedy
] family Of five, supposed to have been lost, art
/ safe in that city.
| SEVERAL PERSONS YET MISSING.
It is learned that Mrs. Horace Fairbanks
l wife of Ex-Governor Fairbanks, of St Johns
| bury is among the lost She was to have beer
| on the train and it is stated that her cloal
| and watch have been found Mr.. Fairbanks
| is looking for the body.
| Another person supposed to be one of the
victims is II. Z. Hazen, of this place.
Mrs. Baisdell, OF Fitchburg, is safe in Mon
treal.
Charles B. Hebbarl of Cambridge, Mass.
/ who is reported to have been wounded in tht
| accident, is wanted in Boston for the embeZ
element of 800. He was on his way Il
| Canada
| The following e an additional list of per
L h.. mia nd 70 n,
| lost: Homer Riggs Of Middlebury, VT. ID
Brooks, of Cornwall, Ont, Fred Blais o
| Springfield. Mass.
| At small farm house near the bridge III
/ two injured men who were presumably over
| looked previously, but VINO are having the bes
| of care They are Mr. Wilcox, owning large
| farm near Bangor, " Y. who is seriously in
| jured on the head, and Mr.. Barlate, French
| man from Nashua whose head Is badly cut
| 1t is feared that WilcoX's skull is fractured.
| TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF A WOMAN.
| At farm house on the south side of thI
| river is a woman who was rescued from tn
sleeper without clothing. Becoming craze'
she started away, crawling on her hands ant
| knees on the ice. She was found some tim
| after a quarter of mile from the wreck.
mattress was procured and she was placed ol
| H. The parties went for a sled to draw he
back. and when they returned 1t was fOun'
the mattress was on fire under her, havln'
| been smoldering when taken from the wreck
| The woman was unable TO move and was ter
| ribly burned. She was badly frozen whe
found on the fee.
Joseph Beauregard of Nashua, supposed {
have been lost. has been heard from at Mon
treaL
A servant girl Of Mr Cone Of Hartford, VT
took the train here for Montreal and wen
down with the wreck She was not seriousl
injured.